468 Lightning,—Egyptian Antiquities. 
merchant vessel, in the hands of skilful marksmen, would be able 
to cut off a whole boat’s crew before they could succeed in board- 
ing a vessel. 
As a sporting or hunting gun, its advantages are not less im- 
portant. It enables the sportsman to meet a flock with twice 
the advantage of a dauble barrel gun, without any of its incum- 
brances, and it enables the hunter to meet his game in any emer- 
gency. This gun has been shown to many officers of our army 
and navy, and has been highly approved of, and indeed no one 
who has seen a fair trial of its powers has ever been able to find 
an objection to it. 
PRESERVATION FROM LIGHTNING, 
Sir H. Davy, in his fourth lecture at the Royal Institution, 
recommends the following means of escaping the electric fluid 
during a thunder-storm. He observed that in countries where 
thunder-storms are frequent and violent, a walking-cane might 
be fitted with a steel or iron rod to‘draw out at each end, one of 
which might be stuck into the ground, and the other end elevated 
eight or nine feet above the surfgce. The person who appre- 
hends danger should fix the cane and lie down a few yards from 
it. By this simple apparatus, the lightning descends down the 
wire into the earth, and secures him from injury. 
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
A considerable addition has lately been made to the Antiquities 
deposited in the British Museum from Thebes, Memphis, and 
other parts of Egypt. They are dispersed for the present in dif- 
ferent parts of the Museum till provision can be made for their 
proper arrangement. ‘There are in a room below the building, a 
Typhonic statue imperfect, in as much as the right elbow and 
both the feet are wanting, holding the Zofus stem in full blossom : 
remains of an elliptical globe crown the head.—A piece of rough 
Egyptian or Ethiopian marble, apparently part of a frieze, co- 
vered over on one surface with hieroglyphics in the running-hand 
of that character.—A portion of a frieze of a temple (red gra- 
nite), its interior or projecting underside with figures in high re- 
lief, among which a vessel brim full of water, dropping its con- 
tents, being super-charged with abundance; exterior surface co- 
vered with linear symbols.—Remains of a colossal female statue, 
in white lime-stone or marble, including the bust to middle of 
waist. A leaf of Jotus ornaments her forehead ; beautiful work- 
mavship, and finely expressive of Ethiopian beauty.—A figure 
in Egyptian lime-stone, or white coarse marble, representing a 
body swathed for rest, or for a funeral.—A lower portion, con- 
taining the legs, of a red granite statue.—A piece of yellow 
marble, 
